pg_upgrade fails with "permission denied for relation pg_authid" - Mailing list pgsql-testers

From Cassiano, Marco
Subject pg_upgrade fails with "permission denied for relation pg_authid"
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Msg-id BC53C974C3B9E542BC0A9BD4C5B1168A0CC2D3BF@NEWMAIL.manord.com
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[TEST REPORT]

[Release]: 9.0Beta2

[Test Type]: CUSTOM

[Test]: pg_upgrade on my production database (v 8.4.4)

[Platform]: Linux Redhat Enterprise 5 x86_64 – Vmware Virtual Machine

[Parameters]:

[Failure]: Yes

[Results]:

it’s my very first trial with pg_upgrade so I’m surely missing something....

I’m trying to launch pg_upgrade passing my super user name but pg_dumpall fails with a permission denied error....

I don’t see the username in the pgdumpall call....could it be this the problem ?

Thank you

 

Marco

 

The output :

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-bash-3.2$ /usr/local/pgsql/bin/pg_upgrade -d /dbms/pgdata-8.4 -D /dbms/pgdata -b /usr/local/pgsql-8.4/bin -B /usr/local/pgsql/bin -l /tmp/pg_upgrade.log -v  --user=mysuperuser

Running in verbose mode

Performing Consistency Checks

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Checking old data directory (/dbms/pgdata-8.4)              ok

Checking new data directory (/dbms/pgdata)                  ok

"/usr/local/pgsql-8.4/bin/pg_ctl" -l "/tmp/pg_upgrade.log" -D "/dbms/pgdata-8.4" -o "-p 5432 -c autovacuum=off -c autovacuum_freeze_max_age=2000000000" start >> "/tmp/pg_upgrade.log" 2>&1

Checking for /contrib/isn with bigint-passing mismatch      ok

Checking for large objects                                  ok

Creating catalog dump                                       "/usr/local/pgsql/bin/pg_dumpall" --port 5432 --schema-only --binary-upgrade > "/home/postgres/pg_upgrade_output/pg_upgrade_dump_all.sql"

pg_dumpall: query failed: ERROR:  permission denied for relation pg_authid

pg_dumpall: query was: SELECT rolname, rolsuper, rolinherit, rolcreaterole, rolcreatedb, rolcatupdate, rolcanlogin, rolconnlimit, rolpassword, rolvaliduntil, pg_catalog.shobj_description(oid, 'pg_authid') as rolcomment FROM pg_authid ORDER BY 1

 

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